时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Vicki: This is Real English from BBC Learning 1 English. I'm Vicki.


Chen Li: 大家好我是陈鹂,在今天的纯正英语节目中我们要学习的短语是什么呢?


Vicki: Today's expression is: to save face.


Chen Li: To save face. 什么意思?解释一下好吗?


Vicki: Well, it's an idiom but it’s not too complicated 2. To save face means to avoid embarrassment 3.


Chen Li: 我知道了,就是挽回面子的意思。我们如何来使用这个表达呢?


Vicki: Well, if you got fired for example, you might say you resigned to save face.


Chen Li: 那就是挽回面子了。


Example


A: I hear that Bill lost the contract for the new shopping centre. Was the boss angry?


B: Very. But Bill managed to save face. He resigned before they could fire him.


Vicki: I went for dinner with my brother and his new girlfriend.


Chen Li: 好玩吗?


Vicki: Yes, but I had to save face for him!


Chen Li: 是吗,为什么呢?


Vicki: Well, when the bill came, he didn't have enough money, so he was very embarrassed.


Chen Li: 那他是如何挽回面子的呢?


Vicki: Well, I gave him some money without his girlfriend seeing. So he managed to save face. I hope he pays me back soon.


Chen Li: 好了,节目时间也差不多了,我们来复习一下吧。


Vicki: To save face.


Chen Li: 这是个成语,意思是挽回面子。


Vicki: You've been listening to Real English from BBC Learning English. Join us again soon for more up-to-the-minute Real English. Bye.


Chen Li: 下次节目再会。



1 learning
n.学问,学识,学习;动词learn的现在分词
  • When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时,常会从车上掉下来。
  • Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。
2 complicated
adj.错综复杂的,麻烦的,结构复杂的
  • The poem is so complicated that I cannot make out its meaning.这首诗太复杂,我理解不了它的意思。
  • This is the most complicated case I have ever handled.这是我所处理过的最为复杂的案子。
3 embarrassment
n.尴尬;使人为难的人(事物);障碍;窘迫
  • She could have died away with embarrassment.她窘迫得要死。
  • Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.在音乐会上咳嗽真会使人难堪。
学英语单词
abigailship
adhered to
aromaster
AS-PCR
ataque de nervios
auxiliary weapons control
bee-bread
beflower
blue-tongued lizard
Borovets
BRMA
came up for
cast iron reservoir
Chagodoshcha
cittern-heads
cold-creams
command list
commanders-in-chief
commit to memory
cornettino
cosine ratio
debuggable
Deutzia setosa
deviltry
direct wave
double edge crack
drawingdown
dumping gearbrake
ecdemomania
enrol oneself
erolia alpinas
ETSL
executional peak
exhaustion of rights
fatty spongioma
field by field form
flight of ideas
flush filter plate
Galen's bandage
glass dead seal
glass film
glucolipotoxicity
goldensprog
guiltiest
guldman
homogeneous dimension
ice tip
initial sun
Joint North Sea Wave Project
kangols
Kesternich
Kettershausen
Laluin, Pulau
leprotic uveitis
leuco base
liquid hydrogen loop
longitudinal
Luganda
madine
maglev,mag-lev
map measurer
MapPoint
medium-weight veal
millesm
minetas
mould susceptibility
no vote
non moral
nutrition relationships
Over-coaching
overcuteness
paper handling carriage
pendant control switch
pepe saddle
phosphor killer
Photoshop actions
pi 3- kinase
polylysogen
post-postmodernism
projection vertexometer
Pākhar
right-handed reference frame
self-excitation type
slowing factor
spirally reinforced column
SRAT
stochastic differentiation
Sulfanilamidosulfasalicylate
supraglenoid tubercles
surprise dosage attack
tetrahydroisoquinoline
transmission experiment
unconventional warfare
undeodorized
uneaually spaced tooth
unribbed
utile
value-creating
viricidal
water glad
zun